Chapter 53: Rest
Li Cheng stood on the street, thinking about his way to go after his money bag was stolen, looking at the getting late at this time, he knew that he would never be able to reach Changzhou City in one night.
Besides, he didn't eat much at all just now, and now he is a little hungry, and he originally planned to find a place to eat again, but now that the money bags have been stolen, he really has nothing to do.
Are you really going to eat and sleep out today? Li Cheng couldn't help but think of this in his heart.
Suddenly, he remembered Xu Ziwei, who had deceived him and was still eating noodles in the alley.
As a righteous gentleman, he would not do something that he had promised to others and then regret it, but he gave Xu Ziwei so much money at the beginning, but now he doesn't enjoy anything.
It shouldn't be too much to go back to him now and ask him to continue to fulfill the original agreement, right?
However, in view of the fact that the food provided by Xu Ziwei is indeed not so friendly, Li Cheng does not intend to be harsh on him, he just wants Xu Ziwei to provide him with a place to rest at night, and wait for tomorrow morning, he will leave for Changzhou City.
In this way, after Li Cheng did a good job of mental construction, he returned to the place where Xu Ziwei ate noodles.
Because of the addition of a poached egg, Xu Ziwei has not finished eating his noodles yet, so after Li Cheng went back, Xu Ziwei was still eating his bowl of noodles.
Seeing Li Cheng who went and returned, Xu Ziwei couldn't help but wonder if Li Cheng later repented, and was about to ask him for the money, but he hurriedly said:
"If you don't want money, you have to die, you can't go back on what you say, this is not a gentleman's doing, you promised me, I won't return the money anyway.".
Hearing Xu Ziwei's words, Li Cheng couldn't help but think of his junior brother, it seemed that he was also such a character who wanted money and didn't want to die.
But he thought about it later, the junior brother is different from Xu Jingke, at least the junior brother is not deceiving.
He told Xu Ziwei that he didn't come to ask for money, and since the words had been spoken, he would never regret it.
"Then why did you come back again?" Xu Ziwei asked suspiciously.
"I've had a bit of an accident at the moment, so I'd like you to provide me with a place to rest for the night, and I'll be gone early tomorrow morning.
I guess it won't be very troublesome, after all, you also had to provide it to me before." Li Cheng replied with a smile.
Hearing that Li Cheng didn't come to ask for money, Xu Ziwei instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
I almost thought that the little money I had just arrived was going to fly away, but it was just a place to rest for the night, so it was a big deal to let him squeeze in a room with me, Xu Ziwei thought in his heart.
In this way, Xu Ziwei agreed to Li Cheng's request, but his noodles were still not finished, and only after he finished eating did the two leave the noodle stall together.
"This is the place you were looking for?" Li Cheng asked.
"yes, no? I think it's good."
At this time, the two of them were standing at the gate of a hostel that was almost falling off even the plaque at the door, and at first glance it was an antique inn for many years, Li Cheng reached out and touched the pillar next to him, and there was actually a lot of ashes on Li Cheng's hands.
Look at this gate, and then look at the ashes that he just shook off in his hand, Li Cheng really couldn't say that this place was okay against his will, but before he could protest to Xu Ziwei, Li Chengcheng was pulled into the hostel by Xu Ziwei.
When he entered the inside, Li Chengcai felt that he really underestimated Xu Ziwei, and it seemed that the inside was not as good as the outside.
After the two went in, it seemed that the boss was not there, only Xiao Er who was dozing off at the counter, Li Cheng saw Xu Ziwei gently push, waking up Xiao Er who was dozing, and then stretched out his hand in front of Xiao Er in the shop.
After seeing that the shopkeeper was woken up, he rubbed his eyes, and after seeing Xu Ziwei standing in front of him, he lowered his head and looked for it in the counter, and then handed Xu Zi the only string of keys, and then continued to doze off, seemingly not worried about being discovered by the boss at all.
Li Wei wanted to persuade Xu Ziwei to find a new place to rest, but before he could speak, he saw that Xu Ziwei had even got the key, so he had to keep his mouth shut, after all, he didn't pay for it.
For the time being, he didn't have the confidence to ask Xu Ziwei to change rooms.
Soon, Li Cheng followed Xu Ziwei to the upstairs room, after Li Cheng came in, he looked around, very good, although this hostel is quite simple, it looks a little old and dilapidated, but this room looks quite clean, Li Cheng saw this, and the corners of his mouth finally had a smile.
It seems that I can sleep well tonight, Li Cheng thought in his heart.
But as soon as Li Cheng thought of this, he saw that Xu Ziwei was already undressing and sleeping, seeing this scene, Li Cheng couldn't help but take a step back and asked, "You, you, what are you doing now?"
Hearing Li Cheng's question, Xu Ziwei replied without looking back, "Can't you see it? I'm undressing!"
"I know you're undressing, I'm asking you, why do you have to undress now?" Li Cheng gritted his teeth and said.
"Isn't it all dark? I don't have anything to do, so of course I'm going to sleep when I take off my clothes, so don't you take off your clothes when you sleep?" After saying this, Xu Ziwei also looked at Li Cheng in surprise, as if he was really curious about whether Li Cheng really went to sleep without taking off his clothes.
At this time, I noticed that it was already dark outside, and now it was indeed time to sleep.
But if Xu Ziwei sleeps here, then where should I sleep? Li Cheng thought so in his heart, after all, he followed Xu Zi on the only way just now, and he didn't see him open the doors of other rooms.
Because there were still questions about this issue in his heart, when Li Cheng saw that Xu Ziwei was lying on the bed after cleaning up, he couldn't help but ask:
"Xu Jing, did you forget something?"
Hearing Li Cheng's words, Xu Ziwei immediately replied, "No, I have packed everything."
Just as Li Cheng wanted to remind Xu Ziwei, he seemed to have forgotten such a big living person as Li Cheng, but Li Cheng suddenly heard an "oops" sound from Xu Ziwei's side.
He thought that Xu Ziwei finally remembered him, but he didn't expect Xu Ziwei to say such a sentence.
"Oops, I actually forgot to find a noodle stall to give me a discount, what a loss today."
After finishing speaking, Xu Ziwei actually talked to himself, Li Cheng didn't really hear it, but he vaguely seemed to hear Xu Ziwei say that next time he must remember to ask the noodle stall owner to give him a discount or something.
"I said, do you really not see me as a person? Do you really feel like I don't exist? Don't you want to know where I can sleep?"
Hearing this, Xu Ziwei was stunned for a moment, he felt very strange about Li Cheng's question, didn't he say it? Xu Ziwei thought about it seriously, as if he had indeed forgotten to say it.
So Xu Ziwei smiled awkwardly, and then said embarrassedly, "That, I'm sorry, I seem to have forgotten to tell you."
"So, where should I sleep?" Li Cheng waved his hand and asked.
"Well, the key is on the table, you can take it and try it out, and you can sleep in whichever room you can open, but as a friendly reminder, those rooms should have been unoccupied for a long time, and you may need to clean them yourself."
But if you don't want to clean, you can choose to share a bed with me, but ......."
Before Xu Ziwei could make his words clear, Li Cheng picked up the key on the table and walked out of the door, and did not forget to close the door for Xu Ziwei before leaving.
"Young man, he is just too impulsive to wait for me to finish speaking, but it doesn't matter, I guess he doesn't want to share a bed with me. Let's hope he'll think the same when he sees the room."
After that, Xu Ziwei shook his head and went to sleep, and after a while, Xu Ziwei fell asleep.
And what about Li Cheng here? He was indeed just as Xu Ziwei thought, and when he heard Xu Ziwei just start talking, he made up his mind not to sleep with Xu Ziwei.
Li Cheng thought to himself, isn't it just that no one has cleaned it for a long time? It's not that he can't live in it, it's a big deal that he will go and clean it later.
Looking at the series of keys in his hand, Li Cheng thought, anyway, he will leave tomorrow morning, so he will choose a room close to the stairs.
But when Li Cheng came to the door of the room, he selected the key on the number on the key chain, and then inserted the keyhole, but he tried several times, but he couldn't open the door.
Li Cheng tried several times without believing in evil, but the result was still in vain, so he had to come to Xu Ziwei's room again and ask him what was going on.
And Xu Ziwei, although he had slept before, he had already guessed that Li Cheng would come to ask him questions, so he was not asleep, and as soon as Li Cheng entered his room, he woke up.
"Say, what's the problem?" After finishing speaking, Xu Ziwei couldn't help but yawn.
Looking at the sleepy-eyed Xu Ziwei in front of him, Li Cheng also knew that it was not good to disturb people's dreams, but he couldn't help it? So he cheekily asked:
"I wonder why this key doesn't match the door." After finishing speaking, Li Cheng also smiled at Xu Ziwei.
Hearing this, Xu Ziwei slowly replied, "Oh, so that's what happened! Once, when I was washing that keychain, I removed all the keys, but I forgot the order after washing, so I couldn't tell the keys apart."
"And how did you open this door?" Li Cheng asked suspiciously.
"It's so simple, I just smashed the lock in this room and reinstalled a new lock, and I always carry the key to the new lock."
"So what's the point of asking the shopkeeper for that set of keys?"
After hearing Li Cheng's words, Xu Ziwei had no choice but to explain: "I can't tell people openly, I changed their locks, right? I really feel like you're a bit stupid, okay, if there's nothing else, I'll go to sleep and walk slowly."
As soon as the words fell, Xu Ziwei really lay down in front of the bed and closed his eyes.